Darryl,
I just applied your patche on my Windows 95 system. The difference is awesome.
Thanks!
david
Note, however, that dired in XEmacs is pretty inefficient.
With
the current dired, most of the time is spent doing an "indent-region"
(and not obtaining the actual directory contents). To speed things up,
try applying the appended patch to dired.el (I just submitted this to
the dired folks).
-- Darryl Okahata